Interrogative adverb
The interrogative adverb - also: question adverb - is a subspecies of the part of speech adverb that introduces a question sentence and asks for types of information that can be expressed by adverbs: place, time, cause, manner, purpose. As a question word, it is in contrast to the interrogative pronouns (question-for-words). Examples of German interrogative adverbs are: "wo", "wann", "wie"; "Why", "why", "why". Interrogative adverbs often have equivalents in demonstrative adverbs : "where - there", "why - about" etc. - Relative adverbs are identical in form to interrogative adverbs, but different in their syntactic function .
Interrogative adverbs, like the corresponding interrogative pronouns, introduce supplementary questions or indirect questions . Using the example of the interrogative adverb "wo", which asks for the place:
- "Where are you?" (Supplementary question)
- "I wonder where you could be now." (Indirect question)
See also
literature
- Duden - The grammar . 8th edition. Bibliographisches Institut / Dudenverlag, Mannheim 2009, ISBN 978-3-411-04048-3 , p. 577 f .: The interrogative adverb .
